Writing Songs Quotes - Page 11

• It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Song, Motivation, Reading

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• I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Writing, Doe

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• Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Song, Writing, People

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• Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing the same thing every day I just couldn't take it.

  Doc Brown

  Song, Writing, Keys

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

  Bryan Ferry

  Song, Art, Writing

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• Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

  Paula Abdul

  Song, Jobs, Taken

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• I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

  Alicia Witt

  Music, Song, Writing

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• I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.

  Kaitlyn Dever

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Writing, Cameras

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

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• If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

  Austin Carlile

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.

  Erykah Badu

  Song, Writing, Artist

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

  Matt Nathanson

  Song, Writing, Listening To Others

  "Singer-Songwriter Matt Nathanson: On feeling vulnerable, staying present, and not being terrified". Interview with Mary Bruce, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good line in a song should be something I can hear myself saying.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

  Luke Temple

  Song, Writing, Leaving

  Interview with James Rickman, therumpus.net. June 30, 2014.

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• I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Song, Writing

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in 1959, and recorded in 1965 by Jimmy Ellege. I started writing songs because I wanted something of my own to sing. I, at that time, was not aware that the songs I heard on the radio were not written by the folks singing them. I had always loved poetry, and found it easy to integrate a melody with poetry.

  Mickey Newbury

  Song, Writing, Long

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• Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest.

  Sara Quin

  Song, Writing, Sometimes

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• I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Song, Writing, Want

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• Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11 or 12 I started writing songs in English. And then after a while of writing these songs in English it came to me that there was no reason for me to sing in English because I lived in Argentina and also there was something important [about Spanish], so I started writing in Spanish.

  Gustavo Santaolalla

  Song, Writing, Important

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• I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

  Pixie Lott

  Song, Writing, Albums

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• I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Hate, Writing

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• I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

  Gabrielle Aplin

  Song, Writing, Stories

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• Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and change, there are fresh topics, new perspectives, or at least there should be.

  Dean Wareham

  Song, Writing, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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